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Hurricane Ida And Louisiana's Vanishing Coast; Uncertain Future For Afghan Refugees

09.01.2021 - By WBURPlay

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Four years ago, host Peter O'Dowd visited the fishing village of Jean Lafitte, an area in Southern Louisiana that was battered on Sunday by Hurricane Ida. We revisit one of the residents that O'Dowd met in 2017 and listen back to some of his reporting on coastal erosion in the area where Ida hit. And, the U.S. military is out of Afghanistan, but many Afghan refugees still face an uncertain future. Krish O'Mara Vignarajah, president and CEO of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, one of the groups helping resettle Afghans, joins us.

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